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Important Lesson That Harry Potter Teaches Us 

 Giving up Prejudices –

If you have ever been exposed to the Harry Potter series, chances are that you have encountered the term ‘Mudblood’. This was a slang that was used to call out magicians that did not belong to magical heritage. Time and again, in the series, it has been re-emphasised that calling out names as an act of discrimination is one of the most heinous things one can do.

We can see this resemblance in today’s society, where people are often discriminated on the basis of their race, religion, gender, skin colour, etc. People hold preconceived notions and biases about people from other categories of the society, which sometimes even leads to riots and attacks. As the Harry Potter books indicate not so subtly, this practice needs to be stopped, and people from all sections regardless of their heritage need to be respected equally.

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Important lesson that Harry Potter teaches us..

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, and not his equals.” 

The quote itself is pretty self-explanatory. What a man is like and how deeply his values are embedded cannot be figured out by having a look at his conduct towards people of the same stature as his. It can be truly figured out by knowing how a person treats people who are placed below him in the social hierarchy. 

But this quote, doesn’t really gives us a license to take a look on others. It indirectly tells us to take a long hard look at ourselves. To be a greater person and be our best selves, we need to treat people who are supposed to be beneath us in the hierarchy with utmost dignity and respect.